Guidance
Special educational needs person level survey: technical specification
Technical specification and validation rules for local authorities completing returns for the person level 2023 special educational needs survey (SEN2).
Applies to England
Documents
Details
The technical specification should be used if you are:
- responsible for the SEN2 data return
- a supplier of software for local authority (LA) management information systems
The specification contains:
- a description of what LAs should supply at LA and person level
- how to structure the data in XML
- how to check the data against the validation rules
You should also read the common basic data set. This defines common data items that we use in our data collections.
Published 26 August 2022